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Indesign 2.x has been doing this at least under certain circumstances: JPEG and - interestingly - LZW (and not ZIP) on top of that. I believe it is a slip. Will have to check if that's improved in Indesign CS. Olaf Druemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:46:49 +0000 >I have now seen several examples of PDF files (made, I think, >by InDesign or by Mac OS X but I can't confirm), which have >streams compressed first with DCTDecode (JPEG) then with >FlateDecode (ZIP). > >Although this is clearly legal in PDF terms, it also seems >pointless or counterproductive. Fortunately it doesn't seem >to upset any of my code, but having compression reported >as ZIP, JPEG does startle both me and our users! > >Does anyone have any ideas or background on why we are seeing >this bizarre compression strategy? > >Aandi Inston >Quite Software To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
